Use Experience Fragments in AEM Content Components

Hello,

We are using AEM 6.3

Problem Statement:

1. I have a content component - "Hero" on an AEM page - home.html

2. Hero component browses Panel component pages - which means, AEM page with Panel Content Component.

home.html (with Hero) -> panel1.html

                                     -> panel2.html

Problem is how to use experience fragments here for #2.

Proposed Solution:

Instead of using individual AEM pages for Panel component.

Use experience fragments instead.

My Attempt:

1. I created one experience fragment with Panel component.

2. Tried to use in home1.html , home2.html

Issue where I got stuck:

1. How do I associate Hero component and the experience Fragment component. These will be added as 2 individual components on home.html?How will Hero component get data from Panel components? There could be multiple other Experience Fragments components. How could I associate one experience fragment component to Hero component?

2. As far as I know, I cannot break inheritance of experience fragments in AEM 6.3.  My problem is if experience fragment -"ex-panel1" is used on home1.html and home2.html. But in home2.html, the image I want to use a different one, rest of data I can re-use as-is.  I will update ex-panel1 in home2.html alone with new image. Is this the recommended approach? I see things are working fine but just wanted to get a confirmation since I read breaking inheritance in experience fragments is an option only from AEM 6.4.

Thanks,

Sudha.